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Trump into the briar patch, August 7th, 2023.

In the Rugby Scrum that we like to call our presidential politics, I would like to point

out to some of the candidates have had their shorts pulled down around their ankles,

and a few of the others appear to be slashing wildly with their switch blades.

I mean, the refs totally should have flagged that, but two of them appear to be dead,

and the remaining two appear to be somewhat cowed.

And so all of this seems to call for a different sort of political analysis than what is usually

provided.

What sort of analysis you ask, I will tell you, trenchant, insightful, surprising, weird,

unsparing, focused, mordant.

Even during times when presidential politics are somewhat normal, it is not possible for

any of us to understand fully what is going on.

So many millions of people are involved, and that means multiple variables multiplied,

even though the fact of two stable parties does mean that you are only dealing with two

basic vectors.

But in times of chaos, crisis, and consternation, like ours, then you have multiple variables

and multiple vectors, and so attempts that analysis necessarily resemble the efforts of

a sophomore philosophy major, stoned out of his gourd, trying to write an essay for some

art appreciation course, wrestling with a question assigned by a woke TA, a question

that asks for a treatment of marginalized voices in the light of the painting convergence

by Jackson Pollock.

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